Sentence examples for substitute for coal from inspiring English sources

In the short or medium term, the most effective substitute for coal is gas.

Advocates like the former oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens have also long sought to promote it as a substitute for coal in electricity generation or gasoline in a new generation of natural gas cars.

British environmental groups remain largely opposed to shale gas fracking, even though it has the potential to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions if used as a substitute for coal in power generation.

At the same time, new discoveries and increased production of natural gas in the United States and elsewhere drove prices down, foretelling a major shift to natural gas as both a transportation fuel and as a possible substitute for coal in electricity generation.

David Hughes, a geoscientist and research fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, an energy and climate research organization in California, used Mr. Howarth's research as part of a broader look at natural gas as a substitute for coal in electricity generation and oil in transportation.

It produces less carbon dioxide for a unit of energy than coal or oil, so the climate will benefit to the degree that gas replaces either of those: it will mostly substitute for coal, though some oil too, especially if gas-powered trucking becomes widespread.

And we're going to have a period when gas is substituted for coal".

Burning gas emits half as much carbon dioxide as coal; so where gas substitutes for coal, emissions will fall.

And Mr Nelson thinks shale gas could help the country cut its greenhouse-gas emissions drastically, by substituting for coal in power stations and replacing diesel and petrol for road transport.

Cleaner energies will be substituted for coal (or, possibly, practical carbon-sequestration technologies will emerge), there will be more investment in public transportation, and, in 2016, according to officials, China will introduce a national cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions.

Methane (99.9 %) was substituted for coal gas.